Shells 'thinning due to fossil fuels


	Shells 'thinning due to fossil fuels

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3-8-2009 8:38 PM

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Organisms the size of sand grains are helping scientists to document the problem of ocean acidification

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dcc8f1b9-9b34-4d5b-899b-339fea32a439/86F326F7-F997-4265-8954-840704123DA4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/09/2509415.htm?site=science&topic=latest" href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/09/2509415.htm?site=science&topic=latest" style="font-size: 11px;">www.abc.net.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/09/2509415.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><A href="http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s2193248.htm?site=science">Anna Salleh</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/09/2509415.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P class="first">The shells of tiny single-celled organisms in the Southern Oceans are thinning due to acid-forming carbon dioxide being absorbed by oceans, new research has found.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/09/2509415.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abc.net.au/img/126B6004-95EA-4990-8122-E697D08D4214" alt="foraminifera" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/09/2509415.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P class="caption" id="storyPhotosCaption">Organisms the size of sand grains are helping scientists to document the problem of ocean acidification <EM>(Source: ACE CRC)</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/09/2509415.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P>Dr Will Howard of the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.acecrc.org.au/">Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre</A> and colleagues report their findings today in the journal <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nature.com/ngeo/"><EM>Nature Geoscience</EM></A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/09/2509415.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P>"The ocean is currently taking up somewhere in the neighbourhood of a third of our fossil fuel emissions," says Howard, a palaeo-climatologist.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/09/2509415.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P>Scientists have predicted this absorption of carbon dioxide would boost the acidity of oceans and interfere with the ability of some marine species to build their shells.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/09/2509415.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P>"It was predicted and now we're seeing it," says Howard. 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